The Press., 1887-08-11
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kA Es8E sssss aas sAg4 AHA ss6Eassas t4ssi5tYfgW Fonon6 Angeges Co. gCaliFOEnia Jny a8, ,1ss7. Our lBeaatifuF valleyais fast filling up pWith Che best element Of the eastern pe6- fple, who come with money, build houses land improve the land tuA may be gathered from the fact that two IyeaFsA ago ten thousand dollars were raised to build three new school houses. and now there are 173 scholars more than we have seating room for, and last Monday the town voted to raise $5O, 900 to build four more, and to rent buildings for school pur- poses until they could be built. 9afJa 'e Dwellings, are going up in every direc- I ton, and houses of five and seven rooms Trent at $16 to $25 8 month. Every ear lpenter and mason is busy, and prices high Thirty-tive car loads of lumber were re- ceived at one of the yards in a single day. Over r15, GOO transfers of real estate were recorded at the register. of deeds office in Los Angeles county for the six months lending July 1st, and the aggregate amount I$45, ,OO0;O0O, and the transfers last week laInounted to $5, ,000, ,0O0. The largest em- 1igration that has ever set it's face toward southern California is expected this fall land winter, and some twenty real estate 1 firms are waiting to welcome them. Car. lnaees are being imported from the east for their accommodation, and one has been purchased. in Boston at g. cost of $640. Twenty three thousand acres of the great China ranch, adjoining Pomona on the south, is being surveyed and divided into lots of to 50 acres .and,wiH be sold to set tiers. The Pomona and EIsenore railroad will be built through the tract the coming winter. A charter has been obtained fol short street railroad from Pomona tc Palomorise station on the Santa Fe R. R. and $25, ,0OO raised for the enterprise Property has risen at least hundred per cent. in the last six months, and the pros pect is that twill go much higher. Sixty dwelling houses are now under contrac and being built in Pomona.
 While the eastern papers come ladeI with accounts of the intense heat in tha section the weather here has been as nea
 perfection as the most fastidious could de d sire, in fact sJlittle cooler than usual a this season of the year. Overcoats tant shawls arc worn by many people evening and mornings. Ihave never heard of bu one case of sunstroke in California, ye people work out in the sun at all times o the year, and through the middle of tn day when the heat is most intense. Thi would be impossible but for the trade wind that always prevail at this season of tn year. After sweeping across the vast wa tersof thegP Pacific their effect is very ex hilerating.
 The fourth was observed as usual by tn ringing of bells, firing of cannon, procea sion of the various orders, music, tn gathering of the people under the dens shade of the pepper trees on the schoo .sl grounds where three thousand partook o the barbacued meats. Then the oration g greased pole, fat mans race, sack race wheelbarrow race, burrow race, calthum plan parade and fireworks in the eVenin! followed.
 The new winery is nearly completed a t a cost of $3O, 900. Three of the churche are planning to enlarge their borders t make room for the throng of people wh
 are constantly coming. The assessors lis 2 for EossAngeles county is just completes and foot up $92, ,OOO, ,OOO against $37, ,OOO, ,0O
 last year,a gain of $55, ,OOO, 900 in one year
 But then the county is somewhat large
 than three states like Connecticut, yet al
 these taxes must be paid at the col
 lector's office in Los Angeles.
 Now is the time when the sick and tn
 we'll, the thrifty and the lazy go to tn = beach and the canons to spend a few week away from home, and it's wearisome cares and look upon the beautiful and romanti in nature. In my next will try and de scribe California canon.
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